Archive for category Film competitions'
Drinkaware has recently launched a competition encouraging budding young film-makers to create a short film which shows that if you are drinking, drink responsibly to have a good time this Christmas. It’s the ‘Why let the good times go bad?’ Christmas video competition. Whether you’re an iPhone enthusiast or a dab hand with a professional [...]
Friday, 16. November 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: 'Why let the good times go bad?', Drinkaware
The Rushes Soho Shorts 2012 film festival starts today (July 11th) and will be screening 199 new films from 22 countries – including two programmes of music videos – over the next ten days. Official Category screenings take place at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, with events & screenings happening through the Festival across Rushes, [...]
Wednesday, 11. July 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Rushes Soho Shorts 2012
The festival programme for this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts Festival has been announced. RSSF 2011, one of the UK’s best short film festivals, will run from July 20th to 29th, will show 148 new short films from 27 countries selected in eight competitive categories, and will open with Morgan Spurlock’s latest feature documentary, POM Wonderful [...]
Tuesday, 28. June 2011 | Comments Off
Tags: RSSF, RSSF 2011, Rushes Soho Shorts, Rushes Soho Shorts 2011
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival has just announced the films selected for the 2011 competition. Over 1200 entries from 53 countries were received to this year’s RSSF, and 148 films produced across 27 countries have been selected to compete at this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. That includes 26 music videos comprising the final selections for [...]
Wednesday, 1. June 2011 | Comments Off
Tags: Rushes Soho Shorts, Rushes Soho Shorts 2011
The shortlist for the Music Videos Competition at the 18th Plus Cameraimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has just been announced – just over two weeks before the opening of the festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland on November 27th. There are 15 nominated videos on the shortlist up for two awards – [...]
Friday, 12. November 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: 18th Plus Cameraimage Film Festival, Plus Cameraimage Film Festival, Promo News
The submissions deadline for the first Vimeo Festival and Awards, to be held in New York in October, is less than two weeks away. Prospective entrants have until July 31st to submit their work to this new event which seeks to honour the best in online video in its various forms – including music video. [...]
Wednesday, 21. July 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: VFA, Vimeo, Vimeo Festival and Awards
Colonel Blimp produced two New Music Shorts for the BBC to coincide with the recent Electric Proms – both produced, in fact, by Sarah Tognazzi. Here’s the one directed by editor and part-time director of videos, comedy shorts and skate vids Ninian Doff. Metronomy’s On Dancefloors is the track used for Ninian’s cute film starring [...]
Friday, 6. November 2009 | 7 comments »
Tags: BBC Music Shorts, Colonel Blimp, Metronomy, Ninian Doff, On Dancefloors, Sarah Tognazzi
To celebrate the launch of the new Samsung i8910 HD mobile phone, Future Shorts in association with Samsung Mobile have commissioned four top directors – Mike Figgis, Phil Sansom & Olly Williams, Rankin & Chris and James Lees – to make films in quickly turned-round short films shot in HD. Watch all four films and [...]
Friday, 22. May 2009 | 2 comments »
Tags: Diamond Dogs, Future Shorts, Mariachi!, Olly Williams, Phil Sansom, Please Say Something, Samsung i8910 HD mobile phone
The deadline for entries for this year’s straight 8 – the annual Super 8mm film challenge organised by Ed Sayers – is now in less than one month’s time. straight 8 is the film competition where entrants make a film on a single cartridge of Super 8mm film, then deliver the cartridge before it is [...]
Tuesday, 24. February 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: Ed Sayers, Joce Capper, Paul Andrew Williams, Rushes Post, Rushes Soho Shorts, Straight 8
Gymnasts are drawn skywards from the city by airship tractor beams in Jasmin Jodry’s film Star Games, which combines live action with animation, rotoscoping and archive footage. The retro-futuristic-styled film was one of four created as art of the 2008 Getty Images Short & Sweet film challenge, in which the filmmakers (Laurie Hill, Big Red [...]
Friday, 9. January 2009 | 2 comments »
Tags: DJ Scanone, Getty Images, Jasmin Jodry, Short & Sweet, Star Games, Th1ng